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The Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) has failed in its bid to get the Competition Commission to allow its members to collectively negotiate with healthcare service providers on pricing and prescribed minimum benefits (PMBs), among others, in a bid to arrest the “decline” of the medical aid sector. The BHF’s more than 30 members include Bonitas, the Government Employees Medical Scheme and Medshield. The BHF wants to compel the Council of Medical Scheme to allow medical schemes to offer Low-Cost Benefit Options or LCBOs. Thabiso Tema spoke with Dr Katlego Mothudi is the Managing Director of the Board of Healthcare Funders

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For the third year in a row the City of Tshwane Municipality has failed to get a clean audit opinion. For the 2023 / 2024 financial year, the capital has received a qualified opinion with findings from the Auditor-General (AG). This is the same audit opinion it received the previous year. The AG says the action plan implemented by the Tshwane municipality management to improve the city’s audit opinion has not been effective. Thabiso Tema spoke with Cilliers Brink, Former Tshwane Mayor. 

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Congo severed diplomatic ties with Rwanda as fighting between Rwanda-backed rebels and government forces raged around the key eastern city of Goma, leaving at least 13 peacekeepers and foreign soldiers dead and displacing thousands of civilians. The M23 rebel group has made significant territorial gains along the border with Rwanda in recent weeks, closing in on Goma, the provincial capital of around 2 million people and a regional hub for security and humanitarian efforts. Thabiso Tema spoke with Victor Kgomoeswana, media commentator, speaker, author.

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The Gauteng Care Crisis Committee representing non-profit organisations in the province wants the Social Development Department to explain what happened to NPO funding. The organisation want to compel the department to reveal who they are funding and what criteria is used to determine who gets money assistance. The Gauteng Crisis Committee took Premier Panyaza Lesufi and the Social Development Department to Court after NPOs in the province did not receive money in the 2024/ 25 fiscal. Thabiso Tema spoke with Lisa Vetten, Gauteng Care Crisis Committee Chairperson.

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The Johannesburg labour court has ruled that community health workers, who for years have been employed by the health department on recurring fixed-term contracts, must be deemed permanent government employees. The National Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu), on behalf of its members, has successfully overturned a previous bargaining council ruling that the temporary contracts were legal. Thabiso Tema spoke with Mike Shingange, NEHAWU President .

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The SA National Defence Force (SANDF) has released a statement saying nine South African soldiers were killed in fierce fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) while holding off an attack by M23 rebels who were trying to reach the city of Goma. Previous reports had said three soldiers died and 14 were wounded.  The SANDF says in a statement that the M23 rebels were not able to reach Goma because of the heroic resistance of the SANDF soldiers. Thabiso Tema spoke with Siphiwe Dlamini, SANDF Spokesperson, Helmoed Heitman, Defence Analyst , and Hubert Kabasu Babu Katulondi, Congolese writer and political analyst.

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The SA National Defence Force (SANDF) has released a statement saying nine South African soldiers were killed in fierce fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) while holding off an attack by M23 rebels who were trying to reach the city of Goma. Previous reports had said three soldiers died and 14 were wounded.  The SANDF says in a statement that the M23 rebels were not able to reach Goma because of the heroic resistance of the SANDF soldiers. Thabiso Tema spoke with Siphiwe Dlamini, SANDF Spokesperson, Helmoed Heitman, Defence Analyst , and Hubert Kabasu Babu Katulondi, Congolese writer and political analyst.

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The SA National Defence Force (SANDF) has released a statement saying nine South African soldiers were killed in fierce fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) while holding off an attack by M23 rebels who were trying to reach the city of Goma. Previous reports had said three soldiers died and 14 were wounded.  The SANDF says in a statement that the M23 rebels were not able to reach Goma because of the heroic resistance of the SANDF soldiers. Thabiso Tema spoke with Siphiwe Dlamini, SANDF Spokesperson, Helmoed Heitman, Defence Analyst , and Hubert Kabasu Babu Katulondi, Congolese writer and political analyst.

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Janusz Waluś remains one of the most polarizing figures in South Africa’s history, remembered for his role in the assassination of anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani on April 10, 1993. The recent interview conducted by Annika Larsen on eNCA, titled Confession of an Assassin, brought to light Waluś’s perspective nearly three decades after the event that almost derailed South Africa’s transition to democracy. It was an unprecedented opportunity to hear directly from the man whose actions shaped the country’s political trajectory in the most violent way. Thabiso Tema spoke with Annika Larsen,  Enca’s My Guest Tonight host . 

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The Government of National Unity (GNU) is facing its most significant crisis yet, with the Democratic Alliance (DA) invoking a formal dispute resolution clause over what it describes as the ANC's "arrogant and disrespectful" approach to coalition governance. Thabiso Tema spoke with Willie Aucamp, DA National Spokesperson  

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